At night.

Mengyao, as always, is cooking in the cold stove fire in the corner of the yard, and the fire has been closed for half an hour.

Immediately stunned.

In the middle of the porridge pot, there was a thing lying on its back facing the sky, and it was actually a frog as big as the palm of a hand. I saw that the white belly of the big frog was facing the sky, and it had already been scalded into a large balloon, with eight forks on its back, and it occupied the entire bottom of the pot.

"Oops!" I only heard the old woman wail and didn't hold the lid of the pot steady.

The lid of the pot was made of aluminum, and it fell heavily to the ground, and the lid did not give up, and continued to roll straight and straight towards the small black table where Meng Yao was standing.

Meng Yao hurriedly dodged.

The lid of the pot fell to the ground with a "snap" and leaned against the stout peach tree.

This peach tree, which has been with Mengyao for several years, should have borne fruit long ago, because it bloomed once last year and the year before, although only a few bloomed sporadically. But the small peaches that were born this year, for some reason, are the same as last year, and they all melted away.

"You damn, do you want to poison our whole family?"

I saw the old woman pick up an arm-thick burning stick, stepped forward, and slammed Mengyao's shoulder and head when it was rounded.

Meng Yao didn't dare to fight back or hide, so she was pumped and pumped countless times...... She could only follow the rhythm of the jerks, constantly tightening her neck and shoulders, arms clasped around her shoulders, and her expression flashed with pain.

When the old woman was tired of whipping, she stopped.

The old woman was out of breath and thought about it, and suddenly remembered that her neighbor's house had been going to the canal to catch chickens and sell them to restaurants. It must have been her family that caught a bag of field chickens, and accidentally ran out of one, but unfortunately, it ran into the porridge pot silently. Thinking of this, in the courtyard next door, there was a string of muffled frogs. Well, it's indeed a frog in a bag.

Hey, that's a bad luck.

This time, it was the old woman who beat her, and the strength was not great, and after only one sleep, she was basically able to heal half of the pain, although her cheeks were still swollen.

The next day.

At less than ten o'clock in the morning, Meng Yao, who was swollen with the corners of his mouth, picked up the account book and looked carefully at the address given in the account book: Ding Xiaoqi, 6 popsicles; Wang Feng, 5; Kudzu forest, 2 roots.

"What are you going to do? Come with me to work in the fields today, don't try to hide or dodge. The second joy was angrily reprimanded.

Meng Yao took the account book and said seriously, "I'm going to collect the accounts." ”

"Bring it!" Meng Yao handed over the palm-sized ledger.

Erxi's eyes were focused on light, and suddenly, he trembled with anger, "You stupid big stupid fork!" After scolding, I rolled up the notebook and picked it up, and slapped it on Mengyao's duck egg face.

Meng Yao covered his hot cheeks, confused.

"I don't know the names of the 12 people on this list, I don't know any of them, there are no such names in this village, you look for them, I see who the hell are you looking for? People just blinded, deceived and bullied you, and ate and drank your big stupid fork for nothing! ”

After Erxi scolded, he was angry and tore the book apart.

Then he threw the shredded paper on her face, and saw that he was about to fly up again, but he didn't know what to think of, hesitated, put his foot down, and turned away.

Dream Yao is uncomfortable.

Her ears were shaken and she was dumbfounded for a moment, in a state of fragmentation. I didn't expect to be deceived so easily.

People's hearts, people's hearts.

She was numb there, not moving for a long time, covering her cheeks and pestle there like a sculpture. The little book was broken, and she felt sad and humiliated again.

A few old hens paced, giggling at the fragments of the notebook, and the last one also pulled a bubble of on it, and the hot rags of rolled on it, so that Mengyao couldn't bear to look at it directly.

I originally wanted to bring these accounts up again, just so that I could tear some flower cloth to make a flower dress for myself who loved beauty in the past, because she didn't know very well at the moment whether she was a man or a woman wearing a shabby coat all day long.

Raising her head to look at the sky, the clouds in the sky were laughing at her, and she turned her head to look at the old locust tree in the courtyard next door, and the old locust tree fluttered its branches with contempt. The old hen was in the corner, also glaring with contempt. In an instant, the trembling emotions in the bottom of my heart were like a trickling stream, gurgling and crying.

She leaned against the tall peach tree, slowly crouched down, covered her cheeks and howled. Because, somehow, now she doesn't have many tears, and even if the emotions come, it seems that the tears have dried up, like a spring that is about to dry up...... So there is only a dry howl to express emotions, and there is no tears.

this day.

Finally, when she was abused, loved and hated, Mengyao successfully mailed 230 yuan to her parents in Zhangjiakou through the hands of her fellow villager Aunt Miao.

This is what she has earned from selling popsicles in the past few months.

is also glad that she was not discovered, so even if she can't go back to her parents' house, she is at ease, and she is grateful to God for her mercy. If it is discovered, it will inevitably be another bloody storm.

This winter.

All the corn at home is cut down by Mengyao every day, and Erxi is only responsible for supervising the work. There are also a few sacks of dirty cotton peaches, and they have to supervise Mengyao to complete it alone every day, and Erxi is only responsible for moving his mouth, and it is the norm to insult a few words.

If Meng Yao works less and has an opinion, Erxi will immediately pick up a big screwdriver with a string of corn grooves and poke it into Meng Yao's body indiscriminately, not at all polite.

When the second hate only hates the poke, her arms and legs are rounded everywhere, and the fierce poke and insertion always can't roll to the side more hard, and it can't achieve a stable and ruthless special effect at all.

The spring tide is slightly cold, and the butterflies stop on the branches of the peach stamens, lazily stirring their wings. A light breeze fell, flowers fell like snow, and the ground was covered with pink, like a magnificent brocade. The willows are still in place, and another day of spring flowers has finally come to the world. This year's peach trees are full of flowers, and after the red flies, the branches are actually full of peaches the size of mudballs.

After a few storms, it was another summer in the blink of an eye.

She still sells popsicles repeatedly.

this day.

Pushing the popsicle box to go home, I just entered the courtyard and suddenly felt dizzy, and the world whirled around and suddenly held on to the fence wall, which barely supported myself, and then I felt nausea and vomiting.

"Wow Wow ......"

A mouthful of batter porridge, I really want to spit it out in one breath and vomit it cleanly.

She leaned against the fence wall, hunched up, and vomited until she spewed yellow-green bile, and she had no strength. Finally, he lay on a gourd vine and slowed down for a long time.

At this time, her face was puffy and pale, the peach blossoms on her sideburns were barely visible, and her fingernails were white instead of pink. Hey, the pink self may only belong to the past. His flowering period has passed, and the petals have withered. The only thing left to survive and squirm is just an old, helpless, empty shell.

In a blink of an eye, she saw that on the fence vine, two cicadas that had been hanging for an unknown period of time, and there was still half of the dragon coat left under the gourd seedlings, she suddenly touched her cheeks and wanted to go back to the past, so she wanted to find her pink self in the past.

But now, he is like a cicada, he has long been completely abandoned by his new life, old, ugly and shriveled, and he is a hollowed out shell. The empty shell is exposed to the relentless sun and rain day and night. Even a few months later, it still hangs here.

It is air-dried helplessly.

However, if you change your role, how good would it be if you were a fresh new life that spreads its wings and flies high, and can fly freely and embrace the sky freely?

I don't want to be an abandoned cicada.

However, her arms and hands were already so bad that she couldn't bear to look at them, and there were countless burns from the neck down, and the scars were covered with scars, and there were swear words that had been burned...... Ay. was destroyed like this, in fact, he was not as good as a dried cicada.

Inside the window, the old woman blinked her cunning little eyes and stared at Meng Yao, "You go and see if that piece of goods is there again?" ”

"Huh? Again? The two were stunned, and in an instant, it was a normal state, "Let's see if it's stable first, I don't know if it's still a pit this time." Hmph, something that doesn't make a difference. ”

The old woman did not pick up, and after showing an incorrigible expression of disappointment, she sighed, and quickly knelt behind the door, praying infinitely for Guanyin Bodhisattva to bless this baby as a male baby.

Four months later.

Her belly has indeed shown that she is really pregnant. Because the cadres of the village brigade often make rounds, she is not allowed to go out for the time being.

Mengyao is very happy.

I happened to sell popsicles for a summer, and I was pregnant, which happened to relieve my sunburned skin.

Pregnant?

It seems to be able to save the embarrassing situation and encounter temporarily, so she is not afraid of pregnancy at all. At the very least, you don't have to work if you're pregnant, and you don't have to be beaten without a bottom line when you're pregnant.

Just didn't go out for a month.

She returned to the moisturizing and smooth of the past, but no matter how she looked at it, it was different from the past, and there was no fairy charm around her.

Pregnant again?

Even if you have the ticket money, in the face of your pregnant body, it is clear that it is not a good time to go back to your parents' home.

She was melancholy.

Suddenly, she really wanted to mail the newly accumulated 60 yuan to her mother, and since she didn't go back, she would regard it as a filial piety to his second elder.

The weather in July is slightly cool in the morning, but after the sun comes out, the sun is hot, and the cicadas around are chirping, disturbing people's hearts and irritability.

This morning of the day.

Mengyao lied that she was going to visit her fellow villagers, but she borrowed a bicycle from Aunt Miao's house and ran to the post office in Xiawuqi Township.

to the door.

She looked back and forth, for fear of being followed by Erxi, but until she entered the post office, she didn't find anything suspicious, and after making sure that there were a group of staff in green uniforms around her, she stepped forward and told the staff that she wanted to send money, filled out the list, and quietly remitted the money. After succeeding, her heart was beating wildly and she looked back and forth and went out.

Ride to Aunt Miao's house first.

Sneaking back to her yard, leaning against the bean seedlings on the fence, rubbing her heart and letting out a long breath of relief, nervousness poured out from the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, and in a blink of an eye, it was a bright and bright smiling face.

Ay.

Aunt Miao was extremely distressed when she saw her like this.

Suddenly, Aunt Miao grabbed Mengyao's hand and said eagerly and in a low voice, "When you give birth to this child, Sister Wang and I will help you plan together, why don't you just run away?" You run back to your parents' house, I'm a fellow countryman, really, I really feel sorry for you, Sister Wang and I can't stand it. ”

After speaking, Aunt Miao pulled up her clothes and wiped her rushing eyes.

When Meng Yao heard this, his heart was surging, and he was stunned, "Huh? What else can it be? Can you escape? ”

"Mmmm," Aunt Miao nodded, "Okay, try it, anyway, Sister Wang and I can't stand you suffering such a foreign crime." Or, you run with a big belly, do you dare? If it doesn't work, I will be born in my mother's house, or go to my mother's house for an abortion?

If you agree, I'll call my brothers and sisters to come and rent a minivan. Unfamiliar cars can't enter the village, so it is estimated that they will still meet you at a distance from the entrance of the village. When the time comes, your task is to put on a headscarf and a mask, and when you escape to the entrance of the village and see a van, quickly stop talking and get into the van. As soon as you step on the gas, you'll be back to your mother's house. ”

Seeing Meng Yao dumbfounded, "Oh, you are young, stupid and cowardly like a mouse, and you can analyze such a routine of escaping with your toes." ”

"Huh? I, let me think again. ”

Mengyao opened her mouth, she also knew that her fellow villagers and sisters were for her own good, but? Maybe this baby is a male fetus? Well, maybe, um, mother's house? Can you really go back? The outline of the faces of his younger brother and daughter-in-law appeared in his mind, as well as the sad and helpless face of his mother who was sick in bed all the year round.

Her whole body was thrilled.

Is going back to my parents' home the best way out? When you return to your mother's house, you can guarantee that it is a golden nest and a silver nest and not a wolf's den to a dog kennel? Besides, even if you run away and have a marriage certificate, isn't this a good thing? If you don't divorce and run to your parents' house, your mother's family is destined not to take you in for too long, and you can't remarry if you run empty.

But if you get divorced? Her heart tightened again. What does it mean to be divorced? Will the heavens fall, and the earth will fall? The mother's family thinks that her daughter is married, so she has everything she needs to change her appearance, but now?

She covered her cheeks in shame.

"Huh? What happened to you? Would you like it or not? Haven't you been insulted enough? What do you think? Hey, hey, hey......" Seeing Mengyao covering her face and squatting down, she shrunk into a ball in discomfort, Aunt Miao was frightened, and she didn't know what made her feel uncomfortable.

After a long time, Mengyao's pale face eased up, she slowly stood up, Aunt Miao was nervously supporting, and she didn't dare to say anything more; Meng Yao didn't say anything, lowered his head and twisted his face, smiled miserably at Aunt Miao, and walked towards home without looking back.

Mengyao was stumbling and hesitating, and in the autumn, the escape was put on hold, but looking at the momentum of Aunt Miao and Sister Wang's plan for themselves, they were still ready to give up.

The leaves are golden, red, or green, and the color is more than the spring and summer flowers, and the autumn water is exceptionally clear and transparent. The blue of the sky in the distance is like a gorgeous canvas, and the layers of colors overlap to outline the grand scene.

In the blink of an eye, there are many months in the belly.

The old woman muttered to Erxi at night, "Otherwise, take her to Shatuozi's cousin's house to hide, this time I can't go to Huaihua Village to disturb the third uncle, the last one was troublesome for a long time, and she was still a girl." Hey, I'm really angry. It's too embarrassing to have no face, to marry such a shameful person who is now stinking in the world, and slapping his face, he is really the reincarnation of the stinky river mussel in the canal, no blood, no sweat and no memory. ”

The old woman finished venting and sighed.

"I'll just listen to you. Avoid long nights and dreams, and wake up early tomorrow to leave. ”

After the rooster crows three times.

Mengyao got up and made porridge for the old woman and Erxi humbly. Because the cake was not round, she was glared at by her mother-in-law and kicked several times, but her hands were slender, and it was difficult to make the cake small and standardized.